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We Need to Help Immigrant Youth, Not Scapegoat Them [jjie.org]

 

Animals.” “Menace.” “Blood-stained killing fields.” These are all terms President Donald Trump used in a one-week period to describe undocumented immigrants, alleged members of MS-13 and the purported harm they are causing our country. The White House doubled down on these assertions by releasing an official statement titled, “What You Need to Know About the Violent Animals of MS-13.”

Others in the administration have echoed these statements, including Thomas Homan, the acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, who called the use of this language “kind.” On Wednesday of that same week, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration held a hearing titled “TPVRA and Exploited Loopholes Affecting Unaccompanied Alien Children.” And on that same Wednesday, President Trump traveled to Long Island, NY for a forum “on immigration loopholes that enable MS-13 to infiltrate our communities.”

In the midst of headlines of babies and children being separated from their parents at the border, Trump invited parents of children who had been killed by undocumented immigrants to the White House that week, noting “[t]hey don’t talk about the death and destruction caused by people who shouldn’t be here.” Despite being an administration marked by chaos, it is hard to deny that this ongoing narrative is anything but a coordinated effort to promulgate a false narrative that immigrant youth should be feared. The facts show this could not be farther from the truth.

[For more on this story by Rachel Marshall, go to https://jjie.org/2018/06/27/we...-not-scapegoat-them/]

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